If there is one thing I’ve learned in ministry so far it is this: don’t go into ministry expecting your ego to get pumped up.
Ministry is incredibly humbling.
Sure there are those few who write some books and influence thousands and who make some money who might have an inflated sense of self. But if you want strokes than be a movie star, or a politician, or a lawyer or just about anything besides a pastor.
I am humbled in about a hundred different ways each week, but one of the most humbling aspects of being a pastor/campus minister/teacher/preacher is this:
I can teach someone a truth in a thousand ways (through teaching, modeling, conversations, etc), and then they go to some conference, or listen to a podcast, or go to a different church and all of a sudden the heavens open and everything makes sense.
Humbling.
I get really frustrated by those moments. My frustration probably has something to do with a need to be in control or liked or thought of a certain way.
But, whatever my issues are, it doesn’t change the fact that they got it. Something finally clicked and they are growing, evolving, changing, living differently. It just wasn’t because of me.
Humbling.
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